Fly Away
““She’s dead. Why are we still here?”
Marah turned to Paxton. He sat on the floor in the waiting room with his long legs stretched out, crossed at the ankles. Beside him lay a brightly colored heap of food wrappers—cookies, cakes, potato chips, candy bars; he’d bought whatever was for sale in the vending machine by the elevator. He kept sending Marah to her dad for more money. She frowned at him.
“Why are you looking at me like that? On TV, when someone flat-lines, it’s over. Your dad te...xted you, like, ten minutes ago that her heart stopped. Then the doctor wanted a meeting. We know what that’s about. She’s toast.”
All at once, she saw him. It was like having the house lights go up on a decrepit theater that had looked magical in the dark. She noticed his pale skin and pierced eyebrows and blackened fingernails, and the dirt that discolored his throat.
She scrambled to her feet, almost fell in her haste, righted herself, and started to run.MoreLess
Marah turned to Paxton. He sat on the floor in the waiting room with his long legs stretched out, crossed at the ankles. Beside him lay a brightly colored heap of food wrappers—cookies, cakes, potato chips, candy bars; he’d bought whatever was for sale in the vending machine by the elevator. He kept sending Marah to her dad for more money. She frowned at him.
“Why are you looking at me like that? On TV, when someone flat-lines, it’s over. Your dad te...xted you, like, ten minutes ago that her heart stopped. Then the doctor wanted a meeting. We know what that’s about. She’s toast.”
All at once, she saw him. It was like having the house lights go up on a decrepit theater that had looked magical in the dark. She noticed his pale skin and pierced eyebrows and blackened fingernails, and the dirt that discolored his throat.
She scrambled to her feet, almost fell in her haste, righted herself, and started to run.MoreLess
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Guest 7 months ago
Loved it, good book, though sad, didn't want it to end, read this one and the first one, liked the different perspectives- thanks for posting it here as I was reading it from library online and it did a timeout error issue before I was done and needed to finish the endWrite Review:
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